Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
.... spent a year and a half in England and worked in a few different
printing houses. He returned to Philadelphia and soon was back in the
printing business.
In 1728, Franklin and a partner, Hugh Meredith, opened their own
print shop. They printed a newspaper called The Pennsylvania Gazette.
He married Deborah Read in 1730. They had three children, two boys
and one girt. One of Franklin's sons later became governor of New Jersey.
He worked as a printer from 1730-1748 and was successful. He
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Nicola Sacco And Bartolomeo Vanzetti
.... on July 14, 1921, Vanzetti left a most moving articulate
statement of the vindication of Sacco and himself in an atmosphere of
hysteria the two were sentenced to die and were electrocuted on August 23,
1927. With the encouragement of supporters, Vanzeffi issued letters and
articles from his prison cell and displayed a highly sensitive intelligence
despite the fact that he was largely self-educated. The Sacco-Vanzetti case
inspired controversy reaching worldwide proportions. Belief in their
innocen .....
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Bruce Lee
.... calendar.
and inspiring martial artist that ever lived.
Bruce Lee was a Chinese martial artist and actor whose main style of
fighting was Kung-Fu among many other styles that he practiced.
From all of the things that I've read and seen about Lee, I think that he
was the type of person that would never give up. He could get beat and come back
for revenge, but there weren't many times that he was defeated. He was also a
very inspiring person to many people. He taught that mental actions over .....
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Chester Wilmot
.... Balkans, and the Nazi dictator's collapse in the expansion of the
Soviet Union. The author strategically builds the Allied alliance, through
the book's course, and he uses the Normandy invasion to illustrate its full
effectiveness. Also included are discussions on the concessions granted to
Stalin by the Allies in general, and Franklin D. Roosevelt in particular.
President Roosevelt believed that Stalin wanted security for his country
with no territorial acquisitions in mind. In order to give the Sov .....
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Dustin Hoffman
.... his character.
At first I thought that the producer of that film had casted the wrong
actor but after watching more of the film I changed my mind. His character
in this movie was probably difficult to act because of the events that took
place in the film. His character's personality and surroundings changed so
much. One minute Hoffman's character is a white Indian and the next he's a
gunfighter.
I thought that the role that Hoffman played in “Kramer Vs. Kramer”
was fairly simple, however it showed ho .....
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Silent Cal: An American President
.... up the political ladder from councilman in
Northampton to Governor of Massachusetts, as a Republican. En route he
became thoroughly conservative.
As President, Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old
moral and economic precepts amid the material prosperity which many
Americans were enjoying. He refused to use Federal economic power to check
the growing boom or to ameliorate the depressed condition of agriculture
and certain industries. His first message to Congress in December 1923
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The Life Of John Calvin
.... of Christ. This too is a similarity between present-
day Catholicism and Calvinism.
The Calvinist religion, similar to our own Catholic religion,
regarded the bible as the basis of all Christian teachings. Calvin was
very knowledgeable of the scriptures and often quoted them in his writings.
He would relate the ideas in the bible to the present times. He would also
search the bible as a text for parables and ideas that supported his own
teachings. Catholics read and study the bible as a lesson to .....
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Dwight David Eisenhower
.... from any of a
thousand thoughtful executives after a year on the job. But here they were
spoken by the still-young executive in the world's biggest job, and they
showed the difference in attitude and tone that twelve months in the White
House have worked on John F. Kennedy.
Jack Kennedy -- Man of the Year for 1961 -- had passionately sought
the presidency. The closeness of his victory did not disturb him; he took
over the office with a youth-can-do-anything sort of self-confidence. He
learned better .....
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The Life And Accomplishments Of John F Kennedy
.... senior thesis at Harvard. The thesis
was why Britain had not been ready for war. The book that resulted from
this was titled Why England Slept. This book became a best-seller. Kennedy
graduated cum laude in 1940. He then enrolled in the Stanford University
graduate business school, but dropped out six months later. Kennedy
enlisted as a seaman in the U.S. Navy after taking a trip through South
America.
For a few months, Kennedy was stationed in Washington, D.C. He
applied for sea duty following the Japa .....
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George Washington: Summoned By A Country; One Man Stood Strong
.... region (Callahan 6).
In October of 1753, Washington was chosen for his first mission
because of his frontiersmanship, hard work, and responsibility. This
mission was to travel through rough terrain in inclimate weather to the
Ohio Valley, to warn the French to stay off the British land. The French
refused and the war began (Meltzer 34-40).
Necessity, a small fort built by Washington's forces 40 miles from
the French Territory was the sight where the first bloodshed of the French
and Indian War oc .....
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Biography Of Galileo
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investigated mechanics and the strength of materials. He showed little
interest in astronomy, although beginning in 1595 he preferred the
Copernican theory (sun centered theory)—that the earth revolves around the
sun. Only the Copernican model supported Galileo's tide theory, which was
based on motions of the earth.
In 1609 he heard that the Dutch had invented a spyglass, what is
now called a telescope. In August of that year he presented a telescope,
about as powerful as a modern field glass w .....
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Bruce Lee
.... consisted of Mr. Lee,
his wife Grace Lee, Bruce's two sisters, Agnes and Phoebe, his older brother
Peter, and later to be joined his little brother Robert.
Bruce grew up in a very crowded house. He lived in a two bedroom flat.
Upon the death of Mr. Lee's brother, he, as in Chinese custom, had to taken in
his whole brother's Family and had to be the provider. This meant nearly 20
people lived in the flat.
It was through his father's connection that Bruce ultimately became a
child film star. Hi .....
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Martin Luther King Jr.
.... I grow up to be a man, I'm going to hit this thing, and hit it hard,
Mother; there's no such thing as one people better than another. The Lord
created us all equal , and I'm going to see to that."
Over the years King was involved in many famous boycotts and marches, but
none of them matched his famous march in Washington. He gave a speech that
showed bigotry in the government. Now, just 20 years later, our country is
changing, and helping to change South Africa.
The key to all this success was Martin .....
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Benjamin Franklin Was A Man Of Many Accomplishments
.... story of the life of Ben Franklin began at a time when Queen
Anne still ruled the colonies; when the colonies were but ten in number,
and when the population of the ten did not sum up to be four hundred
thousand souls; ... when pirates infested the Atlantic coast; when there
was no such thing as a stage coach in the land; ...and when Ann Pollard,
the first white women that ever set foot on the soil of Boston, was still
enjoying a hale old age” (McMaster 1).
“It was when he seven that Franklin had an .....
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Martin Luther King & Malcom X
.... to comprehend.
Another similarity of both men, that really is a tragedy is they
were both assassinated. Both were assassinated for the same reason:
saying, believing, and making it happen of the equality of blacks and
whites on the same level. There were a lot of whites out there that
believed whites were superior now, and always should be. So when King and
X seemed to be making progress in equality, that's when they were both
brought to their death. They were both fatally shot in front of people.
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